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My girl
I did what I could for you
Even though
You didn't ask me to
Slipping across time
Lonely bodies
Yours and mine
We'll have to try again
You're not long for this world, I'm sorry
There's only so much I could do, I'm sorry
The fear, the pain, the shame, it never has to happen
If I go back, it never has to happen again
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I'm feeling so wholesome, I'm feeling so good
Then I walk in the room and you're there
With your hair, your mouth and your neck
How have I not seen you? It's the first time I've seen you
Or is it the second? The stage is set
(You're touching my heart)
Suddenly, I'm falling in love, my insides are gone, my vision is clouded
I'm sitting here wondering how many boys or girls you usually woo in an hour
A shapeless hole was burning my soul but slowly it forms an outline of you
Your face is symmetrical, body is perfect, I'm feeling you now are you feeling me, too?
And then you start talking and all bets are off as your voice takes the form of a life-changing whisper
That brushes my mind and then makes me aware of your eyes (your eyes!) are two different colors
That take their sweet time in their beautiful process of breaking me down and then building me up
The classroom is silent
We're just 5 minutes in and I can't shut up
Wait for me I'm just trying to read your mind
To see if you think I might be worth your time
Baby, I could watch from afar for the rest of my life
But that's not enough I need you right by my side
I'd write a million songs for you
In fact, I've just written two
One happy, one sad
In case the dream's deja vu
What kind of chorus is your favorite?
The kind that's real or the kind that's fake?
Or do you wait for the verse because you know all the words
So what now?
Do I talk
Do I text
Do I write my name out in my blood on your lawn?
What's the price of your time?
I want a taste of your mind
I want the real thing, baby
You're a real woman, honey
So let's just touch each other and forget everything we know
Because who the fuck would ever want to be alone?
Things don't change the second time through
I'm in love with my deja vu
If in this world there is a you and me
Why does it happen so violently?
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Stay-Home Girl
03:39
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I am drunk
There's a dance tonight
It's all in the gym
The squeeze is tight
Play some punk!
It's Nineties Nite
We're all horny
And looking so fine
But it's you I want, I want no other
You're so beautiful, you look like my mother
We've started talking, so I wonder
If this will lead to sex
Your legs take you around the world
But could you be my stay-home girl?
I want your eyes to put them in my head
I want you to sweat so I can lick your skin
I am drunk
Something's not right
Things are heating up
But I think that's the lights
Please stop dancing with him like that
Say the word and I'll drown him like a rat
What's love got to do with it?
What's love?
For the second time now I meet your eyes
You're coming closer, my brain is fried
Your skin is soft and your posture is fierce
Let's get the fuck out of here
Your breasts let you suckle the whole world
But for me you'd be a stay-home girl
In your arms is where I wanna die
Don't you want a guy who makes his mom cry?
I get you want to see the world
But I need my stay-home girl
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Perfume
02:56
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Up in the morning
Get off the floor
Not thinking too much
Until I see the door
It's not my door
Then I see you there
Lying in bed
Cold sunlight slips through
And I see the dust floating over your head
This is so surreal
I don't wanna wake you
I don't wanna wake you
Cause who's to say
That we're the same people as we were yesterday?
But the longer I watch you
The longer I watch you
The fear goes away
For the first time it doesn't matter what I say
Slip back into bed
Smell your perfume
And then I realize that's not perfume
It's just you
It's always been you
Then you wake up
And I'm there to meet you
You smile a little and say, "I'm glad I met you"
And my heart just explodes
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Loverboy
06:07
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You know, this is harder than it looks, my dear
My posture cannot hold up under the fear
That though you smile and say I'm sweet
You're dreaming of boys taller than me
I know, I know, this is not very becoming of me
To lay bare all these insecurities, but
A loverboy's gotta do what he's gotta do
Making himself the fool
I'd do anything for you
But only if you asked me to
I only see myself in your reflection
I'm always looking for a reason
To get a laugh in before the sigh
I'm gonna make sure you never die
If you think this is all a game
I think you should know I don't feel the same
Some other guys might just fuck and run
But I think of you as the only one
What if I never spoke again
But just wrote you love songs instead
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Stern Young Woman
03:23
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I wish I didn't get you into weed
You're too much fun when you're high and
When you stall out you always laugh
I get a bloody nose from hitting the dash and
We listened to Paranoid Android about 37 different times and
I don't care if you tell your meaner friends
They already have some stupid opinions
When we go out
Men on the street, they go:
"Hey, baby!"
But
You're never scared
You just smile and wave
At all the fuckheads
Do you remember when one of your friends said
That your photos inspire them?
I never quite got over that
So I made out with you in the parking lot
I listened to that song you sent me
But I would've liked it better if you were with me
You always point out the little things
That make the song so interesting
I recently asked you
If you were ever scared
About being in the nighttime
In your own skin
You said, "Yeah
From time to time
I feel the eyes
Crawling under my dress"
But you're a stern young woman
So don't you worry
I'd never let harm find you
And I would die
Before I ever let them take your pride
Don't you talk
Don't you speak so violently
I've come back from the dead
To guard the hairs on her head
I will do right by you
The dark is coming soon
I blame myself
I do
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Smooth Customer
03:19
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Hey, sexy
I couldn't help but notice you across the room
You're looking kind of blue
Like you lost your attitude
Like the snow and ice extinguished you and
Inside of you is my god-given right
I always get what I want by the end of the night
Hey, sexy
You won't forget my face once I put you in your place
'Cause I'm a smooth customer
You don't want me around here
I smell your blood and I see your pulse pound
Hey, sexy
Your ass was looking nice so I gave it a slap
Girls are so cute when they're mad, it makes me laugh
But I can read the sings, I don't have to ask
Nah
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Love You Very Much
03:22
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You don't have to talk if you don't want to
You don't have to wake up if you don't want to
You don't have to smile if it's not in you
You don't have to cry if it's not in you
There's no right way
You don't have to call your mom if you don't want to
You don't have to get undressed if you don't want to
You don't have to be brave if it's not in you
You don't have to be around if it's not in you
Will it help to hear that I love you very much?
There's no right way to feel love
There's no right way to feel pain
There's no right way to feel anything at all
I love you very much
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Call Out My Name
03:07
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You call out my name like something from the bottom of a well
Oh how they want, how they need
How they cling to my sleeves til they're lacerated sails
But in the night I am someone else
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If this is the last song
Better make it a good one
To remember you by
A song
As good as you
As good as you?
Impossible
But I gotta try
Though I'm barely alive
You would know if my heart wasn't in it
You always know a good song when you heard it
And I would've liked your opinion
I would've liked your opinion
The change was plain before the day
We met to talk and it was etched out on your face
Slowly the feeling had gone away
The once purple dawn had turned to grey
It squeezed my soul, it wrung it dry
Never thought we would feel this pain when we looked each other in the eye
Scar in the heart, deeper than I ever could have thought
Now you're not the same, you're not the same
And there's so much to blame
Why did God lift you up and put you in the ninth sphere
You looked down and cried at the sight that you saw there
A hundred thousand people all dancing and laughing
They didn't give a shit that your world was ending
And I tried to find you there but I wasn't allowed in
I couldn't find the sliver lining hidden in the smog
So I came to the conclusion that I had to let you go
I came to the conclusion that I had to let you go
We were naked
(In our prime)
We were naked
(In our minds)
We were naked
(When it was cold outside)
We were naked
(In the eyes of God)
You once said everyone should get to see Notre Dame
Do you still feel that way?
Can you still find that place?
It meant so much to me when we were naked
Things made sense in a way that they haven't since
But at the end of it all, I'm just glad you were here
At the end of it all, I hope you were glad to be here
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Short Shorts Portland, Maine
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